Sectional Committees
Overview
Committees comprised of Fellows established to advise Council regarding the qualifications of candidates for election to the Academy. The Sectional Committees cover broad subject areas, currently as follows:
Sectional Committee 1
Mathematical Sciences
Professor A H Welsh12 (Chair)
Professor M G Eastwood12
Professor N Joshi13
Professor J H Rubinstein11
Professor I H Sloan11
Professor O Warnaar13
Sectional Committee 3
Chemistry including Biological Chemistry
Professor D R MacFarlane12 (Chair)
Professor M G Banwell13
Professor F Caruso13
ProfessorP A Lay11
Professor G W Tregear12
Dr R O Watts12
Sectional Committee 5
Applied Physical and Engineering Sciences
Professor S W Sloan12 (Chair)
Professor J P Carter13
Professor R G Gilbert11
Professor M Gu11
Professor P Mulvaney13
Professor G G Wallace12
Sectional Committee 7
Animal Sciences
Professor R P Harvey 12 (Chair)
Professor J A Angus12
Professor P G Holt11
Professor M B Renfree12
Professor D G Stephenson13
Professor P P L Tam13
Sectional Committee 9
Applied Biology including Clinical Sciences and Agriculture
Professor J Passioura12 (Chair)
Professor B K Armstrong12
Professor S F Berkovic12
Professor J J Burdon12
Professor D S Celermajer11
Professor A E Clarke13
Professor N G Martin11
Sectional Committee 11
Information and Communications Sciences
Professor G C Goodwin11 (Chair)
Professor H Durrant-Whyte13
Professor D J Hill12
Professor C Jagadish11
Professor I Shparlinski12
Professor E Weigold13
Sectional Committee 2
Physics and Astronomy
Professor D B Melrose12 (Chair)
Dr B J Boyle11
Professor P D Drummond13
Professor D J Hinde11
Professor R A Vincent12
Professor H M Wiseman13
Sectional Committee 4
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Professor B W Chappell12 (Chair)
Dr J J Finnigan12
Professor H S O’Neill12
Dr S R Rintoul11
Professor M R Walter12
Mr R Woodall13
Sectional Committee 6
Microbial and Plant Sciences
Professor I W Dawes11 (Chair)
Professor A Bacic12
Professor M R Badger13
Professor J G Ellis12
Professor N F Millis13
Dr R E Munns11
Sectional Committee 8
Molecular and Cell Biology
Professor A R Dunn 12 (Chair)
Professor D E James11
Professor P A Koopman12
Professor R G Parton13
Professor V R Sara12
Professor A Strasser13
Sectional Committee 10
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Professor S J Simpson11 (Chair)
Professor M C Ball13
Professor B H Kay12
Professor D B Lindenmayer12
Professor J A McKenzie11
Professor L W Simmons13
Special Elections Committee
Professor C C Goodnow11 (Chair)
Professor A Basten11
Professor L D Field11
Professor R I Tanner11
Professor N Joshi11
11 To retire from Committee after 2011 Sectional Committee Meeting
12 To retire from Committee after 2012 Sectional Committee Meeting
13 To retire from Committee after 2013 Sectional Committee Meeting


